This explains why it took me two years to get a diagnosis for a life threatening heart problem, and why the doctor thought it was all in my head and wouldn't do any testing.
This is why it takes people with chronic pain an average of 7 years or more to get a diagnosis, and in most cases, the diagnosis is wrong. Your problem is defined by whatever drug the doctor is getting a kickback from the drug rep to prescribe. Studies show most doctors also get their education on drugs from drug reps. The latest and most expensive anti-depressants cure everything. Be sure to prescribe them generously despite the fact there is no evidence they work.
This is just way to true. I have dealt with these kind of patients way to many times. They are just wasting the money that is needed for other people who really need it. When they do need it. There will not be any for them thanks to these morons.
with knee injuries like I have, most times the pain is in spasms....like if the knee is probed or moved...plus I have neuromuscular issues that make my legs tense up involuntarily...in between tim I may use a kindle to stave off boredom..or to message my ortho dr. and let him know what's up
if on pain meds for an extended period...like for surgeries....prune juice will be your best friend. I get a jug of it before or on surgery day and keep it ice cold...soon as I feel um...constipated, I drink a big glass followed by water. Then 25 min later or so...let's just say, bring a magazine or a really long book tto the bathroom with ya.
I diagnosis of addiction in the chart is meaningless. Doctors often falsely accuse pain patients of being addicts. The presence of illegal drugs doesn't prove "addiction" to any of the drugs in question. Just because you have an MD after your name doesn't make you an expert in all fields of medicine. Most doctors receive less than 4 hours of education in pain in med school, so a lay person reading the sacred scrolls for a week will be better informed than a typical know-it-all doctor.
I would advise people to volunteer for clinical trials all your labs and x-ray tests are done for free..you take results to your doctor and they will have to treat you...
Heroin still has legitimate medical uses such as treatment of pain and even treatment of heroin addiction. Snake oil salesmen still benefit from the sick and weak, see: American medical profession. Obviously pain meds discovered in the modern era weren't available in the 1800s. Thanks for that brilliant insight. I was talking about narcotics in general and powerful narcotic formulations were available over the counter and cheap as dirt. Somehow, a war on drugs wasn't needed to deal with it.
You're right you can't tell me how many drug addicts you deal with because there is no scientifically valid way to distinguish addicts from legitimate patients. Like most ER docs you prefer to stigmatize people this way because it serves some sadistic, self-righteous impulse you have and it makes you feel powerful. A true healer would have empathy for people with chronic pain as well as addicts and would recognize how hard it is to find a gp who will treat pain. You have nothing but contempt.
pika chu Yes it is a disability. I have a family member who is one thank you very much. For example you get a cold you go around a hyperconderiac they have the same symptoms as you and everything. They make them selves sick. And their mind though they are really sick too. If the see something on T.V like a person with a illness then they have it. Its a mental disability yes. Read up on it.
+Kiki The Fox Oh so my family member that won't go no where and 85%of time in bed ok wtf? They actually think they are so sick that they are phyically sick and it's not a disability. None of you idiots will ever know my family member what we been through before opening ur mouths shut them.
David Marple You need to calm down. I didn't say anything for you to get mad about. It disables a person to an extent but that doesn't mean it's CONSIDERED a disability by the medical industry.
You have no clue of what it's like to be a pain patient in this country if you think it is easy to get treatment for pain with narcotics from a "pain specialist" let a lone a gp. Most "pain specialists" specialize in enriching themselves with invasive shots and procedures which have little to no evidence of efficacy. Others specialize in nothing but handing out drugs to those willing to pay a $500 per month cash retainer. Even terminal cancer patients have trouble getting their pain treated.
You might follow your own advice and talk to people with chronic pain and hear how they are treated by your profession. I have 20 years of experience doing that so I know it is normal for pain patients to be treated abusively by doctors and nurses and falsely stigmatized as being addicts. Then I read doctor blogs and watch their videos where I see the very same misanthropic attitudes and behaviors reported by these patients being propagated and rationalized. My medical record is filled with lies
See the wikipedia entry on heroin. Google "heroin maintenance switzerland" and click on any of the drugwar facts links for an exhaustive listing of studies and references with cites for heroin maintenance.
The belief you can tell whether a person is in pain or not strictly through behavioral cues like cellphone use or ability to walk is absurd. How does someone having a heart attack call for an ambulance, or a guy who's been shot amble into the ER? Some doctors even make the mind-numbingly stupid assertion that people in pain can't eat, which makes me wonder how I've survived 30 years without eating. I lampoon this primitive medical folklore in my video on what pain patients endure at the ER.
How does a tox screen "prove" someone is an addict? How does a patient's chart or history "prove" that a patient is an addict when it is filled with the same ignorant bias and prejudice you show here? In my medical records, I was labelled an 'addict" long before I ever tried any narcotic med. That's not medicine, that's ESP. People with chronic pain usually learn to suppress pain behaviors to get on in the world, and often don't show the same changes in vital signs as acute pain people do.
If you had any empathy for people with pain or drug addicts you wouldn't expend so much energy trying to demonize and vilify them. The misanthropic hostility towards patients is the primary problem in this system. The refusal to take pain seriously and treat it promptly and aggressively is but one symptom of that misanthropy. The idea that is is somehow morally preferable to leave a person writhing in agony for years than to promptly relieve his pain with a pill is nuts.
This video is fantastic. Although a patient having a hard time getting a diagnosis, might not be so amused.
This explains why it took me two years to get a diagnosis for a life threatening heart problem, and why the doctor thought it was all in my head and wouldn't do any testing.
"I was going to come back yesterday when I found out I had leporsy, but then I figured out it was just dry skin and put some lotion on" ~ ROFL
A couch with pillows?? Thats the most comfortable ER room I have ever seen.
"struck with malaria at the spa" HAHAHAHA "I eat a lot of bananas" I'm dying
This is why it takes people with chronic pain an average of 7 years or more to get a diagnosis, and in most cases, the diagnosis is wrong. Your problem is defined by whatever drug the doctor is getting a kickback from the drug rep to prescribe. Studies show most doctors also get their education on drugs from drug reps. The latest and most expensive anti-depressants cure everything. Be sure to prescribe them generously despite the fact there is no evidence they work.
This is just way to true. I have dealt with these kind of patients way to many times. They are just wasting the money that is needed for other people who really need it. When they do need it. There will not be any for them thanks to these morons.
KTF this stuff is amazing and spot on. Please never stop.
with knee injuries like I have, most times the pain is in spasms....like if the knee is probed or moved...plus I have neuromuscular issues that make my legs tense up involuntarily...in between tim I may use a kindle to stave off boredom..or to message my ortho dr. and let him know what's up
Love these
if on pain meds for an extended period...like for surgeries....prune juice will be your best friend. I get a jug of it before or on surgery day and keep it ice cold...soon as I feel um...constipated, I drink a big glass followed by water. Then 25 min later or so...let's just say, bring a magazine or a really long book tto the bathroom with ya.
Is her name Karen?
glucose placebo lol!
Plame the Pharmaceutical Companies and the Doctors that hand them out like Candy.....!
I'm crying laughing from the sarcasm!!
how many times have i told you to stop watching discovery health? LOL
I diagnosis of addiction in the chart is meaningless. Doctors often falsely accuse pain patients of being addicts. The presence of illegal drugs doesn't prove "addiction" to any of the drugs in question. Just because you have an MD after your name doesn't make you an expert in all fields of medicine. Most doctors receive less than 4 hours of education in pain in med school, so a lay person reading the sacred scrolls for a week will be better informed than a typical know-it-all doctor.
Correct spelling is: "hypochondriac"
EMT and I agree.
I would advise people to volunteer for clinical trials all your labs and x-ray tests are done for free..you take results to your doctor and they will have to treat you...
Heroin still has legitimate medical uses such as treatment of pain and even treatment of heroin addiction. Snake oil salesmen still benefit from the sick and weak, see: American medical profession. Obviously pain meds discovered in the modern era weren't available in the 1800s. Thanks for that brilliant insight. I was talking about narcotics in general and powerful narcotic formulations were available over the counter and cheap as dirt. Somehow, a war on drugs wasn't needed to deal with it.
how can you afford to go to the speh every day?
Many of my patients drive nicer cars than I do. Sad, but true.
Glitter Nails your name is glitter nails and your a Dr? LMAO
That's Dr. Glitter Nails M.D. at your service. Please get it right. :p
Turn on your InVideo programming.
He should give her this wonderful new medicine called Normallesallyne®
lol the plecibo joke was halarious LOL made me ROFL
Get a job cleaning out nuclear reactors... HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA!
Hey, I watch Discovery Health and I have never thought I had a disease.
On the other side I agree webMD and now that app.
Brilliant!
this is scary... very scary
"Oh for the love that is all holy" lol
I have “prostate issue”
Nice EAMES chair doc! Did you pay off all your medical loans before you got it!
@ZeKittie I outta beat ya. LOL
You're right you can't tell me how many drug addicts you deal with because there is no scientifically valid way to distinguish addicts from legitimate patients. Like most ER docs you prefer to stigmatize people this way because it serves some sadistic, self-righteous impulse you have and it makes you feel powerful. A true healer would have empathy for people with chronic pain as well as addicts and would recognize how hard it is to find a gp who will treat pain. You have nothing but contempt.
Theres an app for that.
This is sign of a hyperconderiac not a drug seeker. And yes its a disability.
hyperconderiac isnt a disability
pika chu Yes it is a disability. I have a family member who is one thank you very much. For example you get a cold you go around a hyperconderiac they have the same symptoms as you and everything. They make them selves sick. And their mind though they are really sick too. If the see something on T.V like a person with a illness then they have it. Its a mental disability yes. Read up on it.
***** Whether it's considered a disability or not, You can make yourself sick with the mind. It's called the nocebo effect.
+Kiki The Fox Oh so my family member that won't go no where and 85%of time in bed ok wtf? They actually think they are so sick that they are phyically sick and it's not a disability. None of you idiots will ever know my family member what we been through before opening ur mouths shut them.
David Marple You need to calm down. I didn't say anything for you to get mad about. It disables a person to an extent but that doesn't mean it's CONSIDERED a disability by the medical industry.
You have no clue of what it's like to be a pain patient in this country if you think it is easy to get treatment for pain with narcotics from a "pain specialist" let a lone a gp. Most "pain specialists" specialize in enriching themselves with invasive shots and procedures which have little to no evidence of efficacy. Others specialize in nothing but handing out drugs to those willing to pay a $500 per month cash retainer. Even terminal cancer patients have trouble getting their pain treated.
You might follow your own advice and talk to people with chronic pain and hear how they are treated by your profession. I have 20 years of experience doing that so I know it is normal for pain patients to be treated abusively by doctors and nurses and falsely stigmatized as being addicts. Then I read doctor blogs and watch their videos where I see the very same misanthropic attitudes and behaviors reported by these patients being propagated and rationalized. My medical record is filled with lies
what a hypoconderic lol
Stop the madness LOL
See the wikipedia entry on heroin. Google "heroin maintenance switzerland" and click on any of the drugwar facts links for an exhaustive listing of studies and references with cites for heroin maintenance.
The belief you can tell whether a person is in pain or not strictly through behavioral cues like cellphone use or ability to walk is absurd. How does someone having a heart attack call for an ambulance, or a guy who's been shot amble into the ER? Some doctors even make the mind-numbingly stupid assertion that people in pain can't eat, which makes me wonder how I've survived 30 years without eating. I lampoon this primitive medical folklore in my video on what pain patients endure at the ER.
Dude you have no sense of humor
LMAO.
How does a tox screen "prove" someone is an addict? How does a patient's chart or history "prove" that a patient is an addict when it is filled with the same ignorant bias and prejudice you show here? In my medical records, I was labelled an 'addict" long before I ever tried any narcotic med. That's not medicine, that's ESP. People with chronic pain usually learn to suppress pain behaviors to get on in the world, and often don't show the same changes in vital signs as acute pain people do.
This is what the welfare-state does to people. lol
Lol this was funny
🤣🤣🤣
If you had any empathy for people with pain or drug addicts you wouldn't expend so much energy trying to demonize and vilify them. The misanthropic hostility towards patients is the primary problem in this system. The refusal to take pain seriously and treat it promptly and aggressively is but one symptom of that misanthropy. The idea that is is somehow morally preferable to leave a person writhing in agony for years than to promptly relieve his pain with a pill is nuts.